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South African is starting a “national dialogue” Friday that is meant to bring all sectors of society together to discuss the ...
Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation baby bonds program invests in the state’s poorest families to help those born in poverty ...
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A long-term environment of low real interest rates can increase labour income inequality, argue researchers with the Federal ...
The modern foundations of inequality 1980–Jimmy Carter signs the Motor Carrier Act The act deregulates the trucking industry, allowing thousands of small firms to spring up.
The poorest Filipino households recorded faster income growth in recent years and helped bring inequality to its lowest level ...
But inequality hurts the richest, too — at least that’s what the philosopher Ingrid Robeyns argues in “Limitarianism,” a book coming out early next year.
She promptly called on someone else. I sighed. As an economist who studies inequality and families, I have often found myself in the same position as the questioner.
Professor Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business discusses the U.S. tax code’s effect on wealth inequality and how race has shaped the distribution of wealth.
“Inequality so mimics poverty in our minds that the United States of America . . . has a lot of features that better resemble a developing nation than a superpower,” he writes.